Linhuang Town is a border town, built on the mountains, with hundreds of households scattered around.

There are only two long streets in the town. Along the streets are small shops with traditional facades and traditional signboards, making people feel like they are back a hundred years ago.

This town has no special features, such as ancient castles or imposing gatehouses. The only feature is poverty.

The reason why people can gather here and form a market town is because it is close to the wasteland. In the wilderness, there are a large number of animals and plants that are not common in other places.

Since ancient times, people here have relied on the wilderness to survive. They collected herbs and hunted in the wilderness, and sold these things to merchants from the north.

Li Muchen stood at the entrance of the town. From here, he could see the entire Linhuang Town at a glance.

Behind him is a road that is not really a road, winding and extending into the clouds and mist in the distance.

This road is the only connection between Linhuang Town and the outside world, and it is also the lifeblood of Linhuang Town.

A bullock cart drove up the road. The driver seemed to be in a hurry and kept whipping it with a whip.

The cow, which was obviously a little old, exhaled a heavy breath from the nostrils tied with a rope and walked slowly and leisurely.

The ox cart drove slowly past Li Muchen.

In addition to the middle-aged man driving the cart, there were two other people sitting on the cart, a middle-aged woman and a little girl.

The little girl was lying in the woman's arms. Her face was blue, her lips were purple, and her body was still shivering.

Li Muchen noticed that the little girl's entire calf was swollen and there were two small black spots on her ankle.

This must be a snake bite.

However, Li Muchen quickly discovered something was wrong.

As his spiritual consciousness swept over him, there was a layer of cold air attached to the little girl's body.

This is no ordinary snake venom.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Li Muchen shouted.

The middle-aged man driving the car had no intention of stopping and was still cracking his whip.

Li Muchen grabbed the shaft of the car.

The old cow took a few steps, finally stopped, let out a moo, and looked back at its owner, as if to say, I really can't pull it anymore.

The middle-aged man looked at Li Muchen and roared: "What are you doing?"

The woman in the car also stared at him angrily.

Li Muchen pointed at the little girl in the car and said, "She has been poisoned by snake venom and needs to be treated immediately."

"Who doesn't know she was bitten by a snake? Don't delay her treatment!" The man said and went to drive the cattle again.

Li Muchen said: "I can treat her."

The man stopped and asked, "Are you a doctor?"

Li Muchen shook his head and said, "I'm not, but I can cure it."

The man looked at him doubtfully: "Whose family do you belong to? Why haven't I seen you before?"

Li Muchen said: "I just came here. This is Linhuang Town, right?"

"What nonsense are you bragging about as a newly arrived stranger? Don't delay us from finding a doctor!" the man said.

The little girl groaned and called "Mom."

The woman in the car hugged the little girl tightly and urged anxiously: "What nonsense are you talking to him about? Go find Dr. Ye quickly!"

The man snapped his whip and hit the cow hard.

When Li Muchen saw that the person didn't appreciate it, he naturally didn't want to force himself on him.

However, the little girl's snake venom was very strange, so he decided to follow her and take a look.

If it can be cured, that's it. If it can't be cured, he still has to take action, and he can't just ignore it.

So, Li Muchen followed.

The old cow's speed was slow, no matter how hard the driver cracked his whip, it just couldn't walk fast, not as fast as a young man walking.

When the woman saw Li Muchen following the bullock cart, her eyes were full of surprise and she whispered to the man driving the cart: "Her dad, look..."

The driver looked back and said, "What?"

"Then why are the strangers following us? I heard that several girls have disappeared in the previous town. Could it be..." the woman lowered her voice and said worriedly.

The driver's face also showed a bit of ferocity: "I'm here, don't be afraid!"

He whipped the cow's back a few more times. Seeing that the old cow was still moving slowly, he simply stopped with a "boo", jumped off the cart, walked up to Li Muchen, pointed with the whip and said:

"What are you doing with us?"

Li Muchen said in surprise: "I think this is the only way to go to town, right?"

The man thought for a while, as if this was the only way into the town, and was speechless for a moment.

The woman urged: "Oh, what are you talking about and doing when you go down? Hurry up and go! It's important to see a doctor for the baby!"

The man pointed his whip at Li Muchen: "Don't do bad things, otherwise, I will report to the town to arrest you!"

He glared fiercely, jumped on the bullock cart, and continued on his way.

Li Muchen was dumbfounded. Unexpectedly, he was regarded as a bad guy when he first arrived.

The bullock cart entered the town from the side street, turned a corner in the center of the town, and turned into the first street. Not long after walking along the first street, he stopped in front of a shop.

Li Muchen raised his head and glanced at the signboard on the shop - Baiyun Pharmacy.

It turned out that the doctor they were looking for was Ye Zhenghong, the drugstore owner introduced to him by Taoist Baishi.

What a fate!

The man driving the car parked the car, and the woman got out of the car with her child in her arms and walked into Baiyun Pharmacy.

Li Muchen also followed in.

The storefront of Baiyun Pharmacy is relatively spacious on the street, with a three-bay facade and a courtyard inside.

As soon as the woman entered the door, she shouted anxiously: "Doctor Ye, please save my baby! Doctor Ye, please save my baby!"

There were so many people sitting in the shop that there was no room for them on the two rows of long benches, and some were even sitting on the ground.

As soon as they saw the woman coming in with the little girl in her arms, someone said, "Okay, here comes another one! Get in line!"

The woman said anxiously: "My baby was bitten by a snake, I'm so worried!"

Others said: "They were all bitten by snakes!"

"Ah?" The woman was startled, and then she realized that several of the people sitting there had purple faces and swollen legs and feet.

Li Muchen was also very surprised.

He took a look and saw that together with the little girl who had just been sent, there were six patients, all of whom had been bitten by snakes.

How could so many people be bitten by snakes in such a small place at the same time?

Moreover, the symptoms were exactly the same. What he could see with his spiritual consciousness was that there was a layer of cold poison besides snake venom attached to his body.

Apparently, these people were all bitten by the same snake.

There is a small bed in the corner of the room on the left, and a patient is lying on it.

Next to him, a middle-aged doctor in his fifties was applying ointment to the patient's leg.

Li Muchen guessed that this doctor was probably Ye Zhenghong, the owner of the drug store.

The woman who had just arrived felt anxious when she saw Dr. Ye applying medicine to others. She had no choice but to sit down and wait.

Someone next to them comforted them: "Don't worry, Doctor Ye is very powerful. Apply the medicine and it will be fine in two days. There have been more than a dozen people bitten by snakes in the past few days, and Doctor Ye has cured them all."

The woman was relieved.

The patients were wilting and silent, but the guests were chatting loudly, all talking about how great Dr. Ye was, as if there was no disease that could not be cured as long as Dr. Ye was around.

Except for the driver and the woman who just came in and glanced at Li Muchen, no one seemed to notice his presence.

Li Muchen stood there and watched for a while.

Ye Zhenghong's treatment procedures for patients are very routine, which is to check the area bitten by the snake, cut the wound open with a knife, release some black blood, then clean the wound and apply medicine to the wound.

Then a prescription of herbal medicine and plaster is prescribed, and the patient is asked to take it home for internal use and external application.

It seems very simple, but the patient's complexion has improved significantly under his treatment.

Li Muchen suddenly said: "Doctor Ye, this medicine can drive away snake venom, but it cannot drive away the yin evil attached to the bones. You can add a little Yang Huancao to the ointment, and then use acupuncture to drive away the yin evil, and you will be cured."

Ye Zhenghong turned around, looked at him, and asked, "Who are you?"

Only then did people notice his presence.

The woman with the little girl pointed at Li Muchen and said, "This man was following us just now. He was sneaky and didn't look like a good person!"

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